On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 15:12, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> hi lists readers,
> 
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 06:08:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +gfp_repeat.patch
> > 
> >  Implement __GFP_REPEAT: so we can consolidate lots of alloc-with-retry code.
> 
> What about reworking the semantics of kmalloc()?
> 
> Many users of kmalloc get the flags and size reversed (major
> source of hard to find bugs), so wouldn't it be simpler to have:

that in itself is easy to find btw; just give every GFP_* an extra
__GFP_REQUIRED bit and then check inside kmalloc for that bit (MSB?) to
be set.....